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Salt is the most effective, readily available, and economical highway deicer in use today and accounts for 8% of all salt productio. Paper Manufacturing. In paper making salt is used to manufacture caustic soda and chlorine. Caustic soda is used to process wood fibres and chlorine is used to bleach the pulp.
Therefore, salt is better used to kill weeds in areas without other vegetation: driveways, sidewalks and so forth. In this case, dissolve 1 cup of salt to 2 cups of boiling water. Then, spray the salt mixture onto the weeds. Another option is to take a pinch of salt and apply it to the base of the weed.